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chris_z77-czYu1k
chris_z77-czYu1k
Inspiring
March 26, 2018

Greyed out options when search bin is opened in a Panel

  • March 26, 2018
  • 9 replies
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Can't determine if that's a bug or something that completely makes sense (yeah right.lol)

When I double click on a search bin for it to open in a panel (in place, separately or new window)

Some options of right clicking a file are greyed out. More specifically: "Hide", "Modify", "New Sequence From Clip", "Speed Duration", "Make Offline", "Proxy", "Create Multi-Camera" and "Label".

Funny thing, all of those are available for all files, in the same search bin, only if you expand it and not double click on it.

It drove me crazy for some time since I need to only proxy a specific type of files, label specific others, etc. and I am used to double clicking and ctrl-a to select all, rather than expanding the search bin, selecting the first file, holding shift and selecting the last one.

Why am I using the search bin to filter files you might ask? It's because Adobe, for some reason decided to change the behaviour of filtering, so instead of revealing only the filtered files (i.e: typing ".mp4" in the search file to reveal only mp4s) it now reveals the filtered files with their folders, where selecting all might result in selecting other files that live in the same folder and that you don't want selected.

I can't be any smarter or more efficient than a bunch of engineers at Adobe now can I?

So can someone please confirm that they are encountering those new behaviours and if that's how Premiere has become, can someone explain why? so I can wrap my head around another workflow approach?

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      Polity Media Lab
      Inspiring
      October 7, 2025

      But this is a clunky system even as a reference tool.  The whole point of a search is to reveal things and do things to them.  In Finder, if I search for mp4's completed today, I can label them, rename them, whatever.  In Premiere, if I have a search bin with all my v3.0 edits, I right-click them and I can't label them.  But I can click - click (slow double click) and rename them.  Why one and not the other?  And I fear that by revealing this to you, you might notify Adobe's project team and they will go remove the ability to rename from a search bin, to harmonize that behaviour with the limited interaction in the search bin, lol...

       

      But quite clunky is if I right-click -> reveal-original, right-click -> change label for each search result, that's clunky enough... but then there's no back button! 

       

      So in a search bin, right click -> reveal original, do something to it then... where am I?  Some random bin.  So I have to go back up to the top level, and find & double-click my search bin again.  Quite a time waster, when I just want to label all my v3.0 edits the same colour, or relabel them when they are ready for output.

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      jamieclarke
      Community Manager
      jamieclarkeCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      January 17, 2025

      This issue will be classified as a feature request, as clips in Search bins are designed to serve as references to the original clip. 

      jamieclarke
      Community Manager
      jamieclarkeCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      January 7, 2025

      updating status

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      Andrew31181670lxc6
      Participant
      January 6, 2025

      On 24.6.4 and this is still an issue. Such an odd thing but as always the Adobe Forum saves the day so thank you!

      Kevin-Monahan
      Community Manager
      Kevin-MonahanCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      January 7, 2025

      Hi @Andrew31181670lxc6,

      I got your note. Let's have the product team have a look at this issue. I'll move it to the Bugs forum. Sorry for the frustration.

       

      Thanks,
      Kevin

       

      Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community & Engagement Strategist – Pro Video and Audio
      lehestro
      lehestro
      Inspiring
      February 6, 2021

      This bug still exists for me on version 14.6 build 51. Filing another bug report.

      nicklear
      nicklear
      Inspiring
      September 1, 2018

      I'm hitting this problem too - very annoying as what't the point of a search bin if you can't do anything with it. And what's the point of a filtered bin if you have to manually grab files to avoid the folders.

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      debbies67999099
      Known Participant
      April 9, 2018

      I'm having a similar problem. My search filter is always grayed out. Have tested in several projects. Have restarted Premiere Pro twice. Have tried clicking on various items in the Project window. Have tried moving the Project window around as suggested elsewhere.

      Create Search Bin works. But the filter box next to it is always grayed out.

      PPro V12.1.0 (Build 186)

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      debbies67999099
      Known Participant
      May 30, 2018

      Still a problem with V12.1.1 (Build 10)

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      excited_Genie16B8
      Legend
      April 6, 2018

      When I search for MP4 files, only the MP4 files show up, despite that same bin also containing MTS files.

      chris_z77-czYu1k
      chris_z77-czYu1kAuthor
      Inspiring
      April 6, 2018

      Yes, But the folder/bins that contains those MP4 files is showed as well.

      Case scenario: There is 10 Bins, all of them contain .mp4, .mts and .jpeg.

      If you want to filter .jpegs to delete them, you would type in .jpeg, select all and delete.

      But, with the new behaviour, typing .jpeg will show the jpegs WITH the folders/bins they live in, select all --> delete will result in selecting all of those bins and deleting them with everything in them. Including the .mp4 and .mts

      I hope that makes sense?

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      excited_Genie16B8
      Legend
      April 6, 2018

      Your description makes sense.  I'm not sure your complaint does.

      I find it valuable to see the bin structure the searched for files are in.  Rather than selecting everything, which would include the bins, select only the searched for files.  Problem solved.

      stefan_gru
      stefan_gru
      Inspiring
      April 6, 2018

      You are correct. I can reproduce this. I can't see any reason, so please log a bug and cite this forum thread for context.

      Adobe video & audio app feedback

      chris_z77-czYu1k
      chris_z77-czYu1kAuthor
      Inspiring
      April 6, 2018

      Thank you Stefan,

      Bug Reported.

      What about the new behaviour of filtering? Adobe, for some reason decided to change the behaviour of filtering, so instead of revealing only the filtered files (i.e: typing ".mp4" in the search file to reveal only mp4s) it now reveals the filtered files with their folders, where selecting all might result in selecting other files that live in the same folder and that you don't want selected. This was not the case in previous versions where it used to only reveal filtered items without their inclosing folders, any way to change this behaviour?

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